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Information Overload: Make Using Your Email Delete Button Like Eating Chocolate!

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Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. It was better than eating chocolate!

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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm speaking at BlogHer Boston on Saturday. Even better the opportunity to see long-time BlogHer friends Liz Henry , Sarah Dopp , and many others. I went back to the original and most of the questions were geared for Web 1.0. So, I've tweaked the questions. Answer yes or no to the questions below.

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What's Your Best Advice for Managing Information Overload? Join the Support Group in the Comments

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Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. One of the questions was to identify whether or not you are spending too much time online. So, that question was revised!

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Video Blogging Learning Journal: I have some exciting news!

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At blogher, I attended a workshop on video blogging lead by Ryanne Hodson and Zadi Diaz. I asked a few questions: -Many video bloggers do vlog posts where they aim the camera at themselves, talk, and let the video roll. When I saw Steve Garfield model this technique in his workshop at Boston Podcamp , I realized my problem!

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville.

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Revenge of the Female Nerds: Myth Busting

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My fellow blogher, Lisa Williams , disagreed on this point. We need to question fantasies and myths about science and women. She suggested that we "propagate memes" - as she called to the bloghers in the room - go forth and propogate memes! (Hopper invented the compiler.) (My Female nerds need to organize.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? I was trained by Mel King, a civil rights leader out of Boston, extensively, and I still really identify with a lot of his work. Cross-posted from BlogHer. I went to the University of Iowa. We took over a building.

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